971. - Tyrell Hampton

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**Chris Black** (0:48)
How Long Gone, it's your faithful co-host, Chris Black. I have arrived in Los Angeles at Sunny.
Our friends at the Chateau Armand have put me in a conference room, which always makes me feel like I'm doing business when I'm in a hotel conference room to record.

**Jason Stewart** (1:05)
Okay, is this the first time you've got the podcasting suite at the Chateau?

**Chris Black** (1:10)
It's a long, Last Supper style table surrounded by chairs, but then on the walls, there's a bunch of framed ephemera, which is kind of nice. It has Emil Hainey's album cover, which I texted to him because he recorded it here in front of the show.

**Jason Stewart** (1:25)
These walls could talk, right?

**Chris Black** (1:27)
Yeah, if these walls could talk.

**Jason Stewart** (1:29)
So, you are staying in WeHo. Big surprise to no one, but I want to know if the West Hollywood water main breaking this morning is affecting your life.

**Chris Black** (1:40)
You know, I learned about that from our toxic group chat, and I have not seen any water issues yet. Once we finish this show, and I venture out into the West Hollywood weeds a little bit more.

**Jason Stewart** (1:52)
You're gonna go explore?

**Chris Black** (1:55)
I'm gonna put on my water shoes, and my mask and snorkel.

**Jason Stewart** (2:01)
Not the first time you've donned a snorkel and mask in West Hollywood.

**Chris Black** (2:05)
No, no, no. Sometimes the Sunday night party, it's kind of required. So, yeah, it's something I...

**Jason Stewart** (2:11)
I was looking at like...

**Chris Black** (2:12)
I keep it in my bag, just in case.

**Jason Stewart** (2:14)
We know about Sundays, Chris.
They were saying the pipe, it's like this huge pipe that was installed in like 1911 or something. It's like over a hundred years old, like...

**Chris Black** (2:23)
No shit.

**Jason Stewart** (2:24)
Like, how is the infrastructure? WeHo's most hung pipe burst super hard this morning, and it's, of course, it's like really old.

**Chris Black** (2:32)
Yeah, that's not a super surprise. I did... I didn't watch the news clip. It wouldn't load on the plane, the news clip that was shared, but I'm interested to hear more.

**Jason Stewart** (2:41)
It looks... You know, you know whenever there's like a rainstorm in New York and they do the like scare tactic footage of like the subways under water and people get it, you know, it's that kind of vibe where it's probably not that bad, but they make it look like...

**Chris Black** (2:55)
Terrifying.

**Jason Stewart** (2:56)
The dawn of time is coming to an end.

**Chris Black** (2:58)
Yeah, I like that. I like... Well, it's Hollywood after all, Jason. I mean, what would we be...

**Jason Stewart** (3:02)
We're here for the drama.

**Chris Black** (3:03)
Yeah, I'm feeling pretty fried, but I'm ready to pod, bro. They brought me an iced coffee. You know, I'm ready to rock.

**Jason Stewart** (3:08)
I'm drinking an iced coffee as well. And I...
Something feels different. I found myself a little lighter in my step this morning, knowing that Chris was touching down in Tinashe's Los Angeles.

**Chris Black** (3:19)
It feels... Crash out, Tinashe. Honestly, album promo of you hitting a luxury car with a sledgehammer is...
At this point, where do we stop? Is somebody going to promote their album by committing murder? Like, how far do we... Like, how far do we go?

**Jason Stewart** (3:36)
I know a couple of Pee Wee Long Way affiliates who have done just that. Well, for our listeners, Chris is explaining Tinashe, R&B sensation turned EDM DJ, is attempting to go viral online for...
She has a song coming out called Crash Out, which is very, you know, four years ago.

**Chris Black** (3:55)
Yes.

**Jason Stewart** (3:56)
She's trying to go viral by getting caught hitting a sledgehammer, you know, a giant sledgehammer to like a, you know, a late model five series. I think it's the most salvage title that the A&R have got for $1200.

**SPEAKER_1** (4:07)
Not salvage title, not salvage title, that's the most.

**Jason Stewart** (4:10)
They didn't do a ton to buff the little streaker marks off the windshield that says what part of the tow lot it was drugged out of.